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106 - Volume Eighteen Issue Four February/March 2018 From the Editor - Peter Phillips with news about some of our contributors. News - Discoveries in Egypt and elsewhere described by Sarah Griffiths and a report by Campbell Price and Keith White of Rosalie David’s meeting with Egypt’s Minister of Antiquities. Per Mesut: for Younger Readers - Hilary Wilson recounts the story of a Winter Journey by a princess. Khasekhemwy the Unifier - Jan Summers Duffy reveals what we know about this important Old Kingdom pharaoh. Nefertiti’s Bust - A new look at a famous artefact by Joyce Tyldesley. Displaying Ancient Egypt - The way objects are displayed in museums creates misconceptions says Maria Solchaga. Saqqara Before the Step Pyramid: 2 - Colin Reader now consideres the Great Rectangular Enclosures, like the Gisr el-Mudir. Highlights of the Manchester Museum: No. 9 - Campbell Price describes the stela of Ramose. ‘Musical Tombs’ in the Kings’ Valley - Forty turblent years in the royal necropolis investigated by Michael Marfleet. A Little Sketchbook from 1933 - Some remarkable drawings of Egypt discovered by Peter Stevens.
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INSIDE THE STEP PYRAMID OF DJOSER
Sean McLachlan explores the recently reopened interior of this iconic Third Dynasty Saqqara monument.
PER MESUT: for younger readers
She Who Loves Silence
Highlights of the Manchester Museum 29: An Offering by Queen Tiye for her Husband
Campbell Price describes an offering table with a touching significance.
Highlights Of The Manchester Museum 28: Busts Of Jesse And Marianne Haworth
Campbell Price describes the significance of two statue busts on display in the Museum.
TAKABUTI, the Belfast Mummy
Rosalie David and Eileen Murphy explain how scientific examination of the ‘Belfast Mummy’ is revealing much new information about her life and times.
Lost Golden City
An Egyptian Mission searching for the mortuary temple of Tutankhamun has discovered a settlement – “The Dazzling of Aten” – described as the largest city ever found in Egypt (see above). Finds bearing the cartouches of Amenhotep III (see opposite, top) date the settlement to his reign, c. 1390-1352 BC – making it about 3400 years old.
Jerusalem's Survival, Sennacharib's Departure and the Kushite Role in 701 BCE: An Examination of Henry Aubin's Rescue of Jerusalem
BOOK REVIEWS
Golden Mummies of Egypt: Interpreting Identities from the Graeco-Roman Period by Campbell Price
BOOK REVIEWS
Old And New Kingdom Discoveries At Saqqara
An Egyptian team working on a Sixth Dynasty pyramid complex near the Teti pyramid at Saqqara has made a series of important discoveries.
Map Of Egypt
What’s in a name? It is easy for us to forget that the names we associate with the pyramids – such as the Meidum Pyramid, the Bent Pyramid or the Black Pyramid – would have been meaningless to their builders.